"The forces of the market are just that: They are forces; they are like the wind and the tides; they are things that if you want to try to ignore them, you ignore them at your peril, and ... if you find a way of ordering your life that is compatible with these forces, indeed which harnesses these forces to the benefit of your society, that's the way to go." -- Arnold Harberger, University of Chicago Economist
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Bernanke Is Fighting the Last War
This evaluation of the Fed's response to the current crisis is by Anna Schwartz. She was co-author, with Milton Friedman, of one of the most important books of the 20th century: "A Monetary History of the United States" (1963).